Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 637 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Rye: a Hassle-Free Python Experience 

Demonstrates the then latest version of Rye (0.21) and now it can be used to manage Python projects and interpreters.

A search engine in 80 lines of Python

The post details the creation of a search engine in just 80 lines of code, providing insights into the efficient implementation of a basic yet functional search algorithm.

Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next Token

A deep dive into the internals of a small transformer model to learn how it turns self-attention calculations into accurate predictions for the next token.

Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions

This post is designed to be a quick reference for the major changes introduced with each new version of Python. This can help with taking advantages of using new features as you upgrade your code base, or ensuring that you have the correct guards for compatibility with older versions.

Pro-Tip – "En-Rich" your Python testing

The article provides a pro-tip on enhancing Python testing using the "rich" library. It demonstrates how to improve test output by using "rich" for better visualization of test results, particularly in pytest tests. The article offers practical advice and code examples for enriching the testing experience in Python.

How to cache data using GDB's Python API

This article describes how information can be cached for different object types within GDB's Python API; some object types provide special support for data caching, while for other object types you'll need to do additional work to manage cached data.

Build a Content Engine with Django, Kubernetes, TailwindCSS, Twingate, AWS S3, & HTMX 

One Trillion Row Challenge

Improving Django testing with seed database

Graph neural networks in TensorFlow

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

OLMo

A State-of-the-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework.

Lockbox

Lockbox is a forward proxy for making third party API calls.

skorche

Task orchestration for Python.

PyPDFForm

The Python library for PDF forms.

rexi

Terminal UI for Regex Testing.

GPTAuthor

GPTAuthor is an AI tool for writing long form, multi-chapter stories given a story prompt.

django-htmx-components

This is a collection of components for Django and htmx. They are meant to be copy-pasted into your project and customized to your needs.

contrastors

contrastors is contrastive learning toolkit that enables researchers and engineers to train and evaluate contrastive models efficiently.

Rawdog

An CLI assistant that responds by generating and auto-executing a Python script.

IOPaint

A free and open-source inpainting & outpainting tool powered by SOTA AI model.

NaturalSQL

A series of top performing Text to SQL LLMs.

ml-mgie

Apple's new open-source AI model that can edit images based on natural language instructions.

atopile

A tool to create electronic circuit boards with code.

web2pdf

CLI to convert Webpages to PDFs.

New Releases

Python 3.12.2 and 3.11.8 are now available.

Django security releases issued: 5.0.2, 4.2.10, and 3.2.24

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Python Frederick Meetup February 2024

There will be a talk, Algorithmic Art with Python.

PyData Johannesburg Meetup February 2024

There will be a talk, Productionising Machine Learning Models.

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